claw-ideas/ideas/learning-knowledge/research-paper-summarizer.md

Research Paper Summarizer

Ingest papers from arXiv links or PDFs and produce structured summaries with methodology, findings, limitations, and practical takeaways.

Problem

Research is dense and time-consuming to parse, making it hard to extract what matters for real projects.

Core capabilities

• Parse PDFs and metadata into machine-readable structure.
• Summarize abstract, method, experiments, and conclusions separately.
• Extract risks, assumptions, and reproducibility notes.
• Compare multiple papers on the same topic.

MVP scope

• arXiv URL and local PDF ingestion.
• Structured output template with citation links.
• Save summaries to markdown knowledge base.

Success criteria

• Faster literature review cycles.
• Better decision quality when selecting approaches.

Stretch ideas

• Generate implementation checklists from papers.
• Alert when new papers match tracked themes.